GAO Questions Impact of Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Program
Medicare’s value-based purchasing program may not be having much of [...]
Study Considers How Best to Prevent Readmissions
A five-year study performed by researchers from the Yale School [...]
Hospitals, Especially Safety-Net Hospitals, Struggle With Heart Failure Readmissions
For all the emphasis on reducing readmissions to hospitals, providers [...]
Court Rebuffs HHS on Two-Midnight Rule Pay Cut
A federal court has told the U.S. Department of Health [...]
Better Medicaid Data Needed, Governors Say
States need better data to meet the needs of Medicaid [...]
NAUH Talks Medicare DSH With Congressional Committee
Last week representatives of the National Association of Urban Hospitals [...]
Medicare Readmissions Program Unfair to Safety-Net Hospitals, Study Finds
Medicare’s readmissions reduction program penalizes hospitals based largely on the [...]
MedPAC Looks at Various Issues at September Public Meeting
The independent federal agency that advises Congress on Medicare payment [...]
Medicare Proposes Addressing Health Disparities
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has unveiled [...]
NAUH Comments on Proposed Joint Replacement Program
Earlier this summer the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services [...]
